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low 3.2

CVE-2021-23896 json

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in McAfee DBSec

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-10822

cvss
3.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in the administrator interface of McAfee Database Security (DBSec) prior to 4.8.2 allows an administrator to view the unencrypted password of the McAfee Insights Server used to pass data to the Insights Server. This user is restricted to only have access to DBSec data in the Insights Server.

Patch / fix

  • McAfee,LLC McAfee Database Security (DBSec) 4.8.2

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Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.7 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • McAfee,LLC McAfee Database Security (DBSec)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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